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Hospital Case
Posted on 9:00am Saturday 15th March 2008
THERE are certain words that when placed together seem to mean less than their component parts.
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In the Thicket of it
Posted on 9:00am Saturday 8th March 2008
SOMETIMES you can't see the wood for the trees. In our case, you can't see anything at all on account of the sent by the devil brambles. For something that is not supposed to be a tree, the humble bramble grows to an astonishing height. It has the power to cover entire buildings.
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Femme Power
Posted on 9:04am Saturday 1st March 2008
BEHIND every great man there has to be a great woman, as Aretha Franklin once proclaimed.
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Eurostar is Born
Posted on 9:00am Saturday 23rd February 2008
WHEN it comes to new technologies, I wouldn't call myself an early adopter. Probably a begrudging adopter is closer to the truth.
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Un, Deux, Trois, Cat
Posted on 9:00am Saturday 16th February 2008
THE good news is that the re-homing of the three feral kittens abandoned on our doorstep some four months ago has been an outstanding success.
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Hide 'n' Seek
Posted on 9:00am Saturday 9th February 2008
IN DIFFERENT ways and for different reasons we all have certain things that we choose (or need) to hide from others.
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Pool resources
Posted on 9:00am Saturday 2nd February 2008
MANY is the time that I have declared that the age of finding a true bargain in the French Hinterland is well and truly passed, and as is the case with anybody who deals in sweeping statements, I have been made to sweep those statements into my mouth on many occasions.
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Smoke-screen
Posted on 9:00am Saturday 26th January 2008
JUST at the time when the world should have been focusing on Sarkozy's attempts to reform a bankrupt and outdated economy into a shining example for the whole of the Western world, the world has become distracted.
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CrackerNajac
Posted on 9:00am Saturday 12th January 2008
THERE is an almost endless number of different ways to use stone. You can carve gargoyles out of it, build an Alpine rockery home for your garden gnomes, or even use it as a missile to throw at people who really annoy you. Roman armies, for instance, or giants called Goliath.
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Cold Comfort
Posted on 9:00am Saturday 5th January 2008
HOME is where the heart is. Home is feet in warm slippers, a centrally-heated house, cats stretching out on a rug in front of a roaring fire, soft fluffy towels awaiting your exit from a hot shower, mains gas and electricity, mains water, mains drainage In the UK, at least. For those people you last heard from some years ago heading for a new and exciting life in foreign fields it can be somewhat different.
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Trevor Morris and his wife Sue left Charlton Down in 2002 for the Tarn region of southern France, where Trevor renovates old properties. In his spare moments he writes a weekly column about his experiences for the Dorset Echo Weekend Magazine.
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